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lol so over a year ago (july 2019) me and my brother had to get rabies vaccines bc of a bat exposure and the hospital billed him wrong so he is still getting mail about him owing them...$700 after insurance lol
-we got 5 shots spread across 4 visits
-one of those visits was charged wrong
-this bill was for that one visit
-so, in theory, someone getting a rabies vaccine could owe the hospital $8000.
-one of those visits was charged wrong
-this bill was for that one visit
-so, in theory, someone getting a rabies vaccine could owe the hospital $8000.
it’s worth noting if you are exposed to rabies and actually contract it, it’s almost 100% fatal and by the time you realize you have it, it’s too late because of how it attacks the brain. it can take two weeks for symptoms to show up and by the time they do it’s too late
there are 4 visits because the first one is the vaccine plus a shot of anti rabies antibodies, and the next 3 are just vaccine boosters. i say “shot” but the vaccine is administered via multiple shots depending on body size- anyways, it’s clearly medically necessary....
but yeah, if you don’t have health insurance and are exposed to rabies, it is cheaper for your family to pay for your funeral expenses than for you to get treatment so guess which one poor people are going to have to do. do you have $8000 for emergency medical care on hand? lol
also- see the “insurance adjustments” line? that’s not insurance paying for the treatment. that’s the insurance saying “cool bill, we think this much of it is actually bullshit and you can’t charge it” and the hospital literally just says “okay”
so even if your insurance does not cover a procedure at all in any way, just by the future of having insurance you will pay a fraction of what an uninsured person does because you don’t have access to that leverage
my brother has been sorting this bill out for over a year lol
my brother has been sorting this bill out for over a year lol
*just by the nature of having health insurance
anyways today like every other day i hate living in this country LMAOOO
anyways today like every other day i hate living in this country LMAOOO
this thread is mostly for people who don’t live in the US but...yeah....you should see what my parents pay for their fucking insulin bc they committed the crime of being born with malfunctioning pancreases in an authoritarian state that doesn’t care about its citizens lol
oh also private healthcare is so expensive, there are special plans directed at people in their 20s-30s that are around $100 a month but have such a high deductible they cover basically nothing and you still have to get them bc of shit like this lol
